Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
“A comic ballet in two acts”
Overview
During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina, and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening… Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash. Captured live on Apr 29, 2012.
Production Companies
Bolshoi Theatre
Cast
Svetlana Lunkina
Zina
Mikhail Lobukhin
Pytor
Maria Alexandrova
Ballerina
Ruslan Skvortsov
Ballet Dancer
Denis Savin
Accordionist
Alexei Loparevich
Old Dacha Dweller
Anastasia Vinokur
Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller
Egor Simachev
Gavrilych
Ksenia Pchelkina
Gayla
Anastasiya Meskova
Milkmaid
Alexander Voytyuk
Tractor Driver
Alexander Vorobiyov
Highlander
Batyr Annadurdyev
Field Worker from Kuban
Chinara Alizade
Zina's Friend
Yulia Lunkina
Zina's Friend
